A beautiful young heiress becomes engaged to a black coworker; his father disapproves and approaches detective Nero Wolfe with the arduous job of finding something unpleasant about this white girl so the interracial marriage will be called off. During the investigation, the girl is murdered, and her fianc is the prime suspect. Nero believes the man is innocent, so he and his legman, Archie, work to prove his innocence in this tale of thwarted romance, murder, and intrigue set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights movement. Michael Prichard's well-paced reading does justice to the classic give-and-take between Archie and Nero. Recommended.-Denise A. Garofalo, Astor Home for Children, Rhinebeck, NY Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
When a bright young heiress with a flair for romance and one too many enemies is found brutally murdered, Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie, find themselves embroiled in a case that is not as black and white as it first appears.
Susan Brooke has everything going for her.**Men would have killed themselves to marry her, and, in fact, one did.
Susan came to New York to find love and fulfillment, and ended up dead on a tenement floor.**The police say her black fiance did it, but Wolfe has other ideas.**Before he's done, he'll prove that good intentions and bad deeds often go hand in hand and that the highest ideals can sometimes have the deadliest consequences.
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Susan Brooke has everything going for her.**Men would have killed themselves to marry her, and, in fact, one did.
Susan came to New York to find love and fulfillment, and ended up dead on a tenement floor.**The police say her black fiance did it, but Wolfe has other ideas.**Before he's done, he'll prove that good intentions and bad deeds often go hand in hand and that the highest ideals can sometimes have the deadliest consequences.
A Right to Die
When a bright young heiress with a flair for romance and one too many enemies is found brutally murdered, Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie, find themselves embroiled in a case that is not as black and white as it first appears.
Susan Brooke has everything going for her.**Men would have killed themselves to marry her, and, in fact, one did.
Susan came to New York to find love and fulfillment, and ended up dead on a tenement floor.**The police say her black fiance did it, but Wolfe has other ideas.**Before he's done, he'll prove that good intentions and bad deeds often go hand in hand and that the highest ideals can sometimes have the deadliest consequences.
Susan Brooke has everything going for her.**Men would have killed themselves to marry her, and, in fact, one did.
Susan came to New York to find love and fulfillment, and ended up dead on a tenement floor.**The police say her black fiance did it, but Wolfe has other ideas.**Before he's done, he'll prove that good intentions and bad deeds often go hand in hand and that the highest ideals can sometimes have the deadliest consequences.
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BN ID: | 2940173784308 |
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Publisher: | Penguin Random House |
Publication date: | 01/02/2007 |
Series: | Nero Wolfe Series , #40 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |
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